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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Alison Bass, author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial published by Algonquin Books. Alison Bass is an award-winning journalist and long-time medical writer for The Boston Globe. Her articles and essays have also appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Village Voice, Psychology Today, Technology Review, Readers Digest and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the country. A series she wrote for The Boston Globe on psychiatry was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category, and she has received a number of other journalism awards for her work, including the Top Media Award from the National Mental Health Association and two Media Awards from the Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In 2007, she won a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her investigative work. She is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Mount Holyoke College and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Brandeis University. Bass lives in Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons. Visit her website and blog.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life published by Crown. Avery Gilbert is a psychologist, smell scientist, and entrepreneur. His groundbreaking studies in odor perception have been published in scientific journals, and he has helped design commercial scents for everything from perfume to kitty litter. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Visit him at Avery Gilbert and What The Nose Knows.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Lauren Kessler, author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story published by Penguin. Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's), Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. She is also the author of Oregon Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the stateâs 2009 sesquicentennial. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com. She is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children and a cat that thinks itâs a dog. Visit her website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Matthew Miller, M.A., author of Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story published by Health Communications, Inc. Matthew M.F. Miller is a syndicated blogger whose work has been published in more than 400 newspapers in the United States and Canada, including the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun. He holds a master's degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California, and was a member of the University of Iowa Undergraduate Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry Writer's Workshops. Visit Miller's blog at http://www.maybebabyblog.com

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Pamela Stone, author of Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home published by University of California Press. Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research has been supported by a variety of funders including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Sloan Foundation. Former chair of the Department of Sociology at Hunter, Stone was the recipient of a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, where she also served as Associate Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. She is a fellow of Hunter's Gender Equity Program, supported by NSF's ADVANCE program, the goal of which is to promote women in science. An honors graduate of Duke University, Stone received her PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Active in her profession, she was recently elected Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society for 2009-10 Visit Dr. Stone's website.

Jamie Mason, co-host of The North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple, published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. Christina Meldrum received her Bachelor of Arts in religious studies and political science from the University of Michigan. After working in grassroots development in Africa, she earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She has worked for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a litigator at the law firm of Shearman Madapple is her first novel. Visit her website. Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Jessica Brody, author of The Fidelity Files published by St. Martin Griffins. Jessica Brody, 28, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. She started self publishing her own books when she was seven years old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples and electrical tape. After graduating from Smith College in 2001 where she double majored in Economics and French and minored in Japanese, Jessica later went on to work for MGM Studios as a Manager of Acquisitions and Business Development. In May of 2005, Jessica quit her job to follow her dream of becoming a published author. Between 2006 and 2007, Jessica sold two adult novels to St. Martin's Press and two young adult novels to Farrar, Straus, Giroux. The Fidelity Files, her debut, is now available in stores (in real binding) and the sequel, which she is currently completing, is slated for publication in the summer of 2009. The Karma Club, Jessica's debut YA novel will be released in the spring of 2010. The Fidelity Files has already sold in the UK, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia and Taiwan (to date).Jessica now works as a freelance writer and producer. She currently writes for Yahoo's hilarious online TV recap show, Prime Time in No Time. The most recent episodes can be viewed at: http://primetime.tv.yahoo.com Additionally, Jessica produces feature-length films for Cyur Films. Please visit www.cyur.com for information on current and upcoming releases. Visit her website. Visit Jaime Mason's website and blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms.Kate McLaughlin, author of Mommy I'm Still Here: Raising Children With Bipolar Disorder published by Behler Publications. Kate McLaughlin was born and raised in Ontario, California. She attended Chaffey High School and graduated magna cum laude from the University of La Verne with a liberal arts degree. She married her high school sweetheart, attended graduate school at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State San Bernardino, and worked in the Upland School District. Her three children were born in Southern California. After teaching elementary school, coordinating special programs, and training fellow teachers and classroom aides for over a dozen years, Kate began her writing career. As a columnist for Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time-Warner, Kate wrote dozens of magazine articles, then added two regional gardening books to her list of achievements before switching gears to write, speak, and advocate on topics related to Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and mental health. Kate frequently writes and speaks to Parent-Teacher groups, high school and college students, mental health consumers and their families, and other community members. She is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Juvenile Bipolar Research. Visit her website www.katemclaughlin.net. Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of The North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Author Darcey Steinke, author of Easter Everywhere: A Memoir published by Bloomsbury USA. Darcey Steinke is the author of four novels, two of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her novel Suicide Blonde has been translated into eight languages, and her novel Milk has been translated into four. Her nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, Spin, the Boston Review, and the New York Times Magazine. She currently teaches at both Columbia University and New School University in New York City. She lives with her daughter in Brooklyn. Visit her website.Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Professor Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation published by Pantheon. Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the The Washington Post, The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He is a senior administrator at The Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family. Visit his website . Visit the North Star Guardians blog and Dr. Kevin Keough's blog.

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Dr. David Givens, author of Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship published by St. Martin's Griffin. David Givens began studying body language at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Resident Anthropologist and Director of information services and programs at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade. He is currently Director of the Center for Non-Verbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He teaches in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga University. He offers seminars on nonverbal communication to diverse audiences, including lawyers, judges, social workers, salespeople, physicians. He works with law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Intelligence community. Dr. Givens is also the author of Crime Signals: How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim. Visit Dr. Given's website. Visit The North Star Guardian's blog and Dr. Kevin Keough's blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. John Izzo, author of The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. John Izzo is a visionary, author, community leader and professional speaker on leadership development, performance management, corporate culture, and organizational change. Dr. John Izzo has more than 17 years experience working in a wide variety of corporate settings. His clients include nonprofit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, Healthcare Organizations and mid-size companies. Over the last two decades, John Izzo has married his first career as a minister with his second career as a management Values-Shift: The New Work Ethic and What it Means for Business. His pioneering work has been featured on CNN, ABC World News, the LA Times, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The American Medical Journal, B.C. Business, The Seattle Times and the cover of Association Management Magazine on Creating Inspiring Work Places . Based on leading edge research and experiences with more than 200 companies, John Izzo helps people understand these shifting values and how they differ across generations and across gender.John Izzo works with leaders who are serious about finding and keeping talented people and who are willing to do what it takes to create an organization where values and purpose are the foundation of the culture. Visit his website. Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir published by William Morrow. After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. She then specialized in intellectual property and entertainment litigation at several prominent L.A. firms, including Manatt, Phelps Visit her website. Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.